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Old 11-21-2004, 12:57 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Seething
I'm definitely going to pick it up as soon as I can. I'm still unsure what class/race to play, but I'm leaning heavily towards Undead Rogue. The only thing bugging me about that choice is I don't have any experience grouping as a rouge (only grouped as Druid in OB). I did plenty of pulling in FFXI, but I'm unsure how to do it in WoW, and from what I understand Rogues are depended on to pull safely.
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Rogues are a extremely fun class to play, and you can do some serious damage as you get a few lvls under you, but as soon as you start taking damage, you fold like a 2-7 off suit, but there are ways to save yourself, like the Evasion ability, which boosts your dodge to +50% for 15 seconds, enough time to run, or focus the attacks back onto the tank, and also there is sprint, which makes you able to run at +60% speed for 15 seconds as well, more than fast enough to get away from mostly anything. Stealth is extremely fun, backstabbing mobs, and (horde for me) other players. When you get to lvl 20, you can start to poison your weapons after completing a quest that gives you that ability. I was very useful in groups as a night elf rogue, because as the tank was taking a beating, I was usually behind the mob backstabing and doing (at lvl 13-19) 50-60 damage every few seconds, when the mob would turn it's aggro on me, I would gouge (kinda like a stun) and then feint (takes the aggro off of me) and let the tank take the beating once again, then go back to back stabbing. Wash/rince/repeat. Pulling was no cake, as long as any body has a range weapon, any body can pull, I found that most of the time, it was the mages or even the priests who did the pulling, and when the mobs aggro-ed on them, the tanks whould do enough damage and used abilities to pull them off before they even took more than one hit. If you like the idea of walking around in the oppsite faction towns virtually undetected, doing mass amounts of damage, and pulling off massive combos, then the rogue is for you!
BTW, Night Elf is the best race to play as Rogue, because they get a racial bonus to agility and dodge, and rogue damage is calcuated by Agility an strenth, unlike other classes where damage is only dictated by strenth (Warrior/Pally), or Intelegence (Mage/Priest) Not sure about warlock... those guys always freaked me out anyway...
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